This just in: the Chicago White Sox are really, really bad. And the Orioles, acting accordingly, broke through for a decisive 13-3 blowout in the Labor Day matinee to begin a three-game series.
The White Sox arrived in Baltimore with an unfathomable 31-107 record and .225 winning percentage, which, if it holds up for the rest of the year, would be the worst in modern baseball history (since 1900). They are epically, breathtakingly, astoundingly bad.
And yet, despite the final score, there was a brief stretch of time in today’s game where it looked like the O’s might actually blow this.